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post-pc era

If you pay attention to technology news at all, you might have heard the term “post-pc era” tossed about. This term was, if not coined, then certainly nurtured most heartily by Steve Jobs when talking about the iPad. It’s a funny thing about the iPad: when it was first announced everybody just sort of shrugged and said “So what? It’s just a big iPhone!” But people bought them anyway and it turned out that there was indeed a huge market for these devices. Now we use them for all sorts of things, and I will admit that my tablet gets me through most of my casual computer usage at home. Web browsing, book reading, video watching, etc. are now all accomplished on a piece of plastic and glass that fits comfortably in my hand and has a battery that lasts all day. Tablet computers have seen a much faster adoption rate than PCs did, and this popularity has many in the media and at Apple singing the PC's death. How wrong they all are.